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user-inactivated · 1968 days ago · link · · parent · post: Reports out of China suggest first human gene-edited babies have been born
What do you find shocking? I am a bit shocked that it seems to be experiments on humans for the sake of it.
am_Unition · 1967 days ago · link ·
That is the crux of it. If it was like "yeah we found out that the embryo does indeed have HIV and tried to fix it", that's different than attempting to encode a specific mutation that has both desirable and undesirable traits to fix a problem that wasn't likely to occur in the first place. Parental consent be damned, sometimes I don't even think people should be allowed to play the lottery.